The clinical spectrum of humidifier disease in synthetic fiber plants

Pal, TM
deMonchy, JGR
Groothoff, JW
Post, D

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June 1997

Abstract

In a synthetic fiber production site with recirculating cold water humidification systems and small-size-particle (> 0.1 mu <1 mu) oil mist exposure, humidifier disease was diagnosed in several workers. The patients could be divided into three groups illustrating the clinical spectrum of humidifier disease: humidifier fever (toxic inhalation fever) (12 patients); an asthma-like syndrome (8 patients); and allergic alveolitis (4 patients). Natural challenge at the work place, monitored by parameters such as peak-flow, spirometry, blood leucocyte count, and body temperature, provided important diagnostic information. In patients with chronic allergic alveolitis, a gradual recovery during an exposure-free period indicated a work-related causati...

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